[game_edu] Student IP for coursework

[Deanna Whaley]

Hi Ian - We had this exact situation at our college a few years ago. A
graduating team had won a competition and a studio had contacted them to
partner up and commercialize the game. Issue was...some of the art that was
created was not going to be used in the game but the artist was part of the
original team and was no longer on the team. There was no college policy.
After checking with our legal department and the software company Autodesk
about the legalities of commercializing the game we came up with a contract
that they each had to sign. The contract basically said that they were the
IP owners, but all assets created on the educational software had to be
recreated on a commercial license (we couldn't just move the assets over to
a commercial license). Autodesk was willing to allow students to move
assets from a student license to a commercial license, but not from an
educational license we have in our labs. I hope this helps.

Thanks,


Deanna Whaley
Austin Community College
Game Dev., Animation & Motion Graphics Dept.
dwhaley at austincc.edu  |  512.223.4830  | Northridge Campus, Rm. 3142


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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Ian Schreiber via game_edu <
game_edu at igda.org> wrote:

> Question for those of you who teach courses that involve the creation of
> games that may go on to be commercialized, submitted to festivals, or
> similar (e.g. capstone courses):
>
> What do you do, if anything, involving student ownership of IP? Do you
> have them sign a contract as part of the syllabus (and if so, what's in the
> contract and how did you put it together)? How do you handle cases where
> some of the student team might want to take the game forward and others
> would not? How do you deal with crediting and ownership in the case of
> students who are low performers, or who are late adds or late drops (or who
> contribute to the project peripherally even though they're not taking the
> course, e.g. a student whose roommate provides some art on their own time)?
> And... how much of this is covered by university or department policy, vs.
> how much is entirely up to you as the instructor?
>
> Just at my own institution it seems like there's no standard, every
> professor handles this differently, so I'm interested to hear what others
> have done in this space.
>
> - Ian
>
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